[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"nav-categories":3,"article-nearly-half-of-us-college-students-are-considering-changing-their-major-because-of-ai":70},{"data":4},[5,37,57,64],{"name":6,"slug":7,"categories":8},"Productivity","productivity",[9,13,17,21,25,29,33],{"id":10,"title":11,"slug":12},17,"Branding","branding",{"id":14,"title":15,"slug":16},19,"Marketing","marketing",{"id":18,"title":19,"slug":20},20,"Work","work",{"id":22,"title":23,"slug":24},34,"Community","community",{"id":26,"title":27,"slug":28},21,"For newbies","for-newbies",{"id":30,"title":31,"slug":32},24,"Investment","investment",{"id":34,"title":35,"slug":36},22,"Finance","finance",{"name":38,"slug":39,"categories":40},"Tech","tech",[41,45,49,53],{"id":42,"title":43,"slug":44},28,"Technology","technology",{"id":46,"title":47,"slug":48},32,"Artificial Intelligence","artificial-intelligence",{"id":50,"title":51,"slug":52},26,"Security and protection","security-and-protection",{"id":54,"title":55,"slug":56},31,"YouTube Blog","youtube-blog",{"name":58,"slug":59,"categories":60},"News","news",[61],{"id":62,"title":58,"slug":63},18,"quasanews",{"name":65,"slug":66,"categories":67},"Business","business",[68],{"id":69,"title":65,"slug":66},16,{"post":71,"published_news":96,"popular_news":153,"categories":223},{"title":72,"description":73,"meta_title":72,"meta_description":74,"meta_keywords":75,"text":76,"slug":77,"created_at":78,"publish_at":79,"formatted_created_at":80,"category_id":26,"links":81,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":30,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"category":90},"Nearly Half of US College Students Are Considering Changing Their Major Because of AI","A striking new statistic reveals how deeply artificial intelligence is already reshaping the career plans of the next generation.","47% of American college students are seriously thinking about switching their major due to concerns about AI, and 16% have already done so","This is not abstract anxiety — it is a tangible shift in behavior among students who are still years away from entering the full-time workforce.","\u003Cp>A striking new statistic reveals how deeply artificial intelligence is already reshaping the career plans of the next generation.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202514395.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Nearly Half of US College Students Are Considering Changing Their Major Because of AI\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"447\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202514395.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>According to recent survey data, \u003Cstrong>47% of American college students\u003C/strong> are seriously thinking about switching their major due to concerns about AI, and \u003Cstrong>16% have already done so\u003C/strong>. This is not abstract anxiety — it is a tangible shift in behavior among students who are still years away from entering the full-time workforce.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The findings point to a growing sense of unease on campuses. While professors and university administrators continue to debate whether to ban, restrict, or ignore generative AI, students are quietly taking matters into their own hands.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>Listening to the Noise\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>Experts interpreting the data suggest the trend is driven less by personal experience with job loss and more by the constant stream of alarming headlines, social media discussions, and conversations with peers.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>> “I think it’s a sign that they are listening to the media, that all these jobs are going to disappear. They’re listening to their friends and social media, and they’re trying to make sense of it.”\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202512427.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Nearly Half of US College Students Are Considering Changing Their Major Because of AI\" class=\"image-align-right\" height=\"447\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202512427.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>Fields that students perceive as most vulnerable — writing-heavy disciplines, basic coding, graphic design, marketing, and certain areas of law and finance — are seeing the highest rates of reconsideration.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>At the same time, students are not passively waiting for the future to arrive. Many are actively experimenting with AI tools, often in direct defiance of their university’s policies. They use ChatGPT, Claude, OpenClaw, and other agents for assignments, research, and personal projects. The more they use these tools, the more they realize how capable AI already is — and how fast it is improving.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>This hands-on experience appears to be fueling rather than calming their anxiety.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>The Guidance Gap\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>One of the most concerning aspects highlighted by educators and researchers is the vacuum of leadership from higher education institutions themselves.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Many universities are still stuck in reactive mode — issuing vague policies, threatening disciplinary action for AI use, or pretending the technology doesn’t exist. Very few have provided clear, practical guidance on how students should learn to work *with* AI rather than against it.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202510165.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Nearly Half of US College Students Are Considering Changing Their Major Because of AI\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"447\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202510165.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>> “The more that higher ed keeps stalling and not providing some clear guidance, even around some general principles on how you use it or what it is, the more that’s going to hurt students who need to be prepared to use AI in the workforce.”\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The irony is painful: the very institutions meant to prepare young people for the future are lagging behind the students they are supposed to guide.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Also read:\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cul>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/china-hits-a-major-milestone-agibot-produces-its-10-000th-humanoid-robot-and-the-acceleration-is-what-matters\">China Hits a Major Milestone: AgiBot Produces Its 10,000th Humanoid Robot — And the Acceleration Is What Matters\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/tufts-report-9-3-million-us-jobs-at-risk-from-ai-in-the-next-5-years-and-the-hits-are-coming-for-high-tech-hubs-not-rust-belt-towns\">Tufts Report: 9.3 Million US Jobs at Risk from AI in the Next 5 Years — And the Hits Are Coming for High-Tech Hubs, Not Rust Belt Towns\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/anthropic-hits-30b-arr-superforecaster-peter-wildeford-now-sees-openai-anthropic-combined-run-rate-at-240b-by-end-of-2026\">Anthropic Hits $30B ARR — Superforecaster Peter Wildeford Now Sees OpenAI + Anthropic Combined Run Rate at $240B by End of 2026\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\t\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/ai-gets-100k-a-3-year-lease-in-san-francisco-and-one-simple-instruction-make-profit-it-opened-a-real-store-and-hired-humans\">AI Gets $100k, a 3-Year Lease in San Francisco, and One Simple Instruction: “Make Profit” — It Opened a Real Store and Hired Humans\u003C/a>\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\u003Chr />\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>A Generational Wake-Up Call\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture>\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202516144.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\"Nearly Half of US College Students Are Considering Changing Their Major Because of AI\" class=\"image-align-right\" height=\"328\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/0001/image-2026-04-17t202516144.jpg\" width=\"220\" />\u003C/picture>What we’re seeing is a rare case of students being more pragmatic — and more forward-looking — than the system designed to educate them. Faced with uncertainty, they are voting with their course selections and majors. Some are moving toward fields perceived as more “AI-resistant” (healthcare, trades, certain STEM areas with strong physical components), while others are doubling down on learning how to leverage AI as a core skill.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Whether these shifts will prove wise or premature remains to be seen. But the signal is clear: today’s students are acutely aware that the job market they will enter in 3–5 years may look dramatically different from the one their professors prepared for.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The cloud of uncertainty over AI is no longer just media hype. For nearly half of American college students, it has become a personal career calculus — and they are already adjusting their plans accordingly.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>The question now is whether universities will finally catch up and help them navigate this new reality, or continue to pretend it doesn’t exist.\u003C/p>","nearly-half-of-us-college-students-are-considering-changing-their-major-because-of-ai","2026-04-17T18:27:03.000000Z","2026-04-22T06:21:00.000000Z","22.04.2026",{"image":82,"image_webp":83,"thumb":84,"thumb_webp":85},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/pFSRpFXdqsFcPJ4wpjQ3KTYW7aaPLFG8hZc3uB17.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/pFSRpFXdqsFcPJ4wpjQ3KTYW7aaPLFG8hZc3uB17.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/pFSRpFXdqsFcPJ4wpjQ3KTYW7aaPLFG8hZc3uB17.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/pFSRpFXdqsFcPJ4wpjQ3KTYW7aaPLFG8hZc3uB17.webp","small",null,0,"en",{"id":26,"title":27,"slug":28,"meta_title":91,"meta_description":92,"meta_keywords":93,"deleted_at":87,"created_at":94,"updated_at":95,"lang":89},"Quasa media is a growth hacking blog for those who have no experience","Insiders and instructions on how not to step on a rake in any area of life.","For newbies, how to, newbie, advice, instructions","2021-10-25T14:55:26.000000Z","2024-08-25T15:35:10.000000Z",[97,110,123,126,139],{"title":98,"description":99,"slug":100,"created_at":101,"publish_at":101,"formatted_created_at":80,"category":102,"links":103,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":108,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"is_pinned":109},"a16z Invests in MTS: The 24/7 “Monitoring the Situation” Livestream That Wants to Own Real-Time News on X","Andreessen Horowitz has just backed one of the most straightforward — and potentially most influential — media experiments of 2026.","a16z-invests-in-mts-the-24-7-monitoring-the-situation-livestream-that-wants-to-own-real-time-news-on-x","2026-04-22T10:26:16.000000Z",{"title":58,"slug":63},{"image":104,"image_webp":105,"thumb":106,"thumb_webp":107},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/863CSHWk8jqXvpZzTsOjd14NyQfaBFERd09zQxFm.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/863CSHWk8jqXvpZzTsOjd14NyQfaBFERd09zQxFm.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/863CSHWk8jqXvpZzTsOjd14NyQfaBFERd09zQxFm.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/863CSHWk8jqXvpZzTsOjd14NyQfaBFERd09zQxFm.webp",1,false,{"title":111,"description":112,"slug":113,"created_at":114,"publish_at":115,"formatted_created_at":80,"category":116,"links":117,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":122,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"is_pinned":109},"Yann LeCun’s Continued Crusade: Why LLMs Are Not the Path to Human-Level Intelligence","Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and one of the most respected figures in deep learning, continues his long-standing campaign against the idea that large language models (LLMs) represent the main road to artificial general intelligence.","yann-lecun-s-continued-crusade-why-llms-are-not-the-path-to-human-level-intelligence","2026-04-17T18:37:38.000000Z","2026-04-22T09:30:00.000000Z",{"title":47,"slug":48},{"image":118,"image_webp":119,"thumb":120,"thumb_webp":121},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/jepXgVYshqhhHivVOOF6DNljHWDpoeswxC11H342.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/jepXgVYshqhhHivVOOF6DNljHWDpoeswxC11H342.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/jepXgVYshqhhHivVOOF6DNljHWDpoeswxC11H342.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/jepXgVYshqhhHivVOOF6DNljHWDpoeswxC11H342.webp",7,{"title":72,"description":73,"slug":77,"created_at":78,"publish_at":79,"formatted_created_at":80,"category":124,"links":125,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":30,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"is_pinned":109},{"title":27,"slug":28},{"image":82,"image_webp":83,"thumb":84,"thumb_webp":85},{"title":127,"description":128,"slug":129,"created_at":130,"publish_at":131,"formatted_created_at":80,"category":132,"links":133,"view_type":86,"video_url":87,"views":138,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"is_pinned":109},"OpenClaw Is Becoming the “ChatGPT Moment” for AI Agents — And Everyone’s Already Feeling It","Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently called OpenClaw “the next ChatGPT.” At the time, it sounded like typical tech hype. 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